OK took a rough look at the stats in Basketball Reference. Pre-GSW, KD was in the mid 50% TS range in the playoffs. Steph was right around 60%. PPG: Steph around 26.5 and KD around 29.5. This year, Steph is at 70% TS on around 23ppg and Durant on 69% at 33ppg. Both have benefited from each other clearly. He's an all-time great, but I'll always be biased against him for the same reason a lot of others are. Plus the fact that he's robbing us of a few championships (last year and potentially this year) during what I think are Harden's prime years which would be good enough to win championships in pretty much any other era.
Depends how your defining best scorer? Most prolific? Best efficiency? Most consistent? Most clutch? Kyrie has proven to be pretty clutch, as has Dame. But not great enough alone to carry a team very far because of his prowess You'd like to say KD. He has a pretty good track record, but hes ALWAYS been surrounded by HOF talent and when alone his stats suffer. Although, not a big sample size of doing it alone. Harden, his efficiency drops every year but had proven he can take teams deep all alone. Steph has been pretty inconsistent, life of a jump shooter tbh, but his independent ceiling is great when hes omegahot. Giannis, nahh. Kawhi, I'm just not sure. Hes a great playoff player no doubt, but scorer? Ehhh, that's a stretch. Very capable 2 way and #1 guy tho. LeBron. Maybe not today or this year I guess but in today's NBA he, IMO, is the clear best scorer to have for the playoffs.
Why is It a stretch to call him a great scorer? Certainly he has been great in these playoffs so far. When alone KD’s stats suffer? What is your basis for that? Last three postseasons, he is scoring 42.7 points per 100 possessions on 61.4 true shooting without Steph on the floor. https://www.pbpstats.com/possession...sonType=Playoffs&OffDef=Offense&StartType=All
Jokic is up there in discussion of best scorer after game 7 triple double. Took down Aldridge in a game 7 in every statistical category.
